Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda) Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian)